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Check out our partner site, Dragonfly.eco, which offers an Eco-Writers' Space, the Dragonfly Library, and other literary resources for nature lovers. Dragonfly is an online environmental storytelling portal, which writers, scholars, publishers, and readers may freely use as reference or as a way to share their work. Our motto is "blowing your mind with wild words and worlds."

Artists and Climate Change, an initiative of The Arctic Cycle, is rerunning our Spotlight on Climate Change Authors as a new Wild Authors series.

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As Peter Gingold, Director, Tipping Point, says: “This most grandiose and abstract subject is experienced at a very personal level, making its demands on the way we live with partners – or with friends, neighbours and communities. This must be …Read more

Discover Minus Tide Back to the new Discover feature Over a decade ago, when I was chief editor of Jack Magazine, issues would have themes, whether South African poetry or Gregory Corso or Philip Whalen or science fiction and fantasy–all …Read more

Occasionally we add prose and poetry that creatively circumvent issues of the environment. In an Eco-fiction stage at the 2016 Word Vancouver, Mr. Collis read with others whose works call for at least thought, if not action, on some aspect …Read more

Thanks to author Christian Chelebourg for bringing to our attention his book of essays and thoughts about pollution, global warming, natural disasters, epidemics, and genetic engineering found in over two hundred novels, cartoons, essays, documentaries, poetry, and movies. Pollution, réchauffement …Read more

Fracture: Essay Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America In the past decade, fracking for natural gas has brought rapid change to landscapes and communities across the country. A new anthology of writing on the subject, Fracture: Essays, Poems, and …Read more

Ecocriticism presented in sentence fragments to illustrate the fact that no one really understands how the world works. You control where your thoughts take you in a world where complex life is embedded in a microbial whirlwind loaded with genetic …Read more

The Wild in You: Voices from the Forest and the Sea by Lorna Crozier, Ian McAllister (photographer) A testament to the miraculous beings that share our planet and the places that they live, The Wild in You is a deeply-felt …Read more

Thanks to author Don Ogden for information his book Bad Atmosphere: A Collection of Poetry & Prose on the Climate Crisis. Bad Atmosphere is the culmination of decades worth of writing by Don Ogden focusing on aspects of climate change …Read more

Energy scholar Vaclav Smil wrote in 2003, “Tug at any human use of energy and you will find its effects cascading throughout society.” Too often public discussions of energy-related issues become gridlocked in debates concerning cost, environmental degradation, and the …Read more

From lichens to malls to merchant republics, it’s “another day in this here cosmos,” in Maureen N. McLane’s stunning third poetry collection, This Blue. Here are songs for and of a new century, poems both archaic and wholly now. In the middle …Read more

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The so-called realist novel, because of its debt to the Enlightenment, has shied away from engaging with Nature and issues involving large collectives, and focused instead on what John Updike calls an “individual moral adventure”. This focus, Amitav Ghosh points out in his seminal work on climate change – The Great Derangement – has ghettoised all other kinds of writing, placing them in genre fiction. -Rajat Chaudhuri